Critical Purple "Auto" North Eastern U.S

@Kitties_and_Colas, yes you can expect the same behavior. Although the slowing of growth during veg is usually due the lack of space in the pot, if you were to up pot at that point there would be no slowing in growth.

@Kitties_and_Colas, ahh quite controlling I see. Haha I’m kidding. That definitely makes sense though. Cloning is another practice I’d love to try. My tent is small as well (3’x2’) I’m running two autos in it and both have completely filled my tent wall to wall. I’ll be only running one at a time from now on. I’m giving you a follow cause you’re cool and you grow some awesome stuff!

@Rad2thebone, the big one is that i can't pull the trigger on when the plant starts to flower..if i have an unhappy or sick photoperiod plant, i can veg it out and decide when to flower and decide on size of yield..another thing is we smoke a bunch so we like to grow perpetually, we keep a few mom's around and clone them often...I don't mind autos outdoors (and they seem to do the best for us there) but having them indoors tends to mess up our routine, that and our veg tent is only a 2x4 (4x4 for flower) so it becomes a space issue as well... we have a bunch of autoflower diaries, 90% are plants bought as feminized but turned out to be autos.. this diary is the only time we deliberately purchased autos (and of course they weren't autos lol)

@Kitties_and_Colas, Dang that’s sucky, hopefully ilgm is better for you. As far as autos go, is it the yield or the quality that you don’t like? I’m on my first grow right now and it’s an auto but I have a photo g13 haze that I’ll play around with next just to try something else out. Hopefully this auto turns out nice though.

lol I do remember it being a good nightime smoke but not too much else, my husband gave a ton of it away to family ...i remember the Gorilla Glue and GWS we grew that year being a little better 😺👌

We much prefer photos too..especially indoors, this diary was 3 summers ago, it was our first time messing with autoflowers 🐱

@Kitties_and_Colas, I've got 2 autos that were no way autos as well, but now that I like photo better its all good. Cheers to NE. I lived in Presque Isle briefly.

@YBorSchmeebor, yeah...we're in the far NE United States (10min from Canada) and the wind is awful late in the season...we drop them in holes sometimes to stabilize them...these outgrew their containers in veg, they were sold as autoflowers but were definitely photoperiod

Thanks Swagy!! That was an awesome summer! Not so much for hubby, I made him port all the water out to them that year lol 😸.. we weren't legal then and our spot was rough to get to..

@Kitties_and_Colas, That sucks to hear. I know there support sucks. They give the same line over and over. I would ditch these guys if they were not the only place for me to get these seeds.

@justright these were labeled "autoflower" but every seed in that pack was photoperiod.. I've seen diaries of this strain and week 5-7 seems to be the average time for buds to start but these grew on the same timeline as the other photoperiods we had in the field.. I wrote Grower's Choice about this but they just gave a generic ruderalis speech... we've had lots of seeds since from them marked "photoperiod" that were autoflowers.. it was getting expensive dealing with Grower's Choice, our last seed pack (and an angry friend's) of GDP fem only had 1 photoperiod the rest auto and unusablefor our purposes... that was the final straw..after 3 years of hit/miss, i just don't trust their seeds anymore 😕

@Kitties_and_Colas, sorry you had that experience. We are having pretty good luck except for mites getting to them. All 5 seeds popped and are flowering like mad. 21 days till harvest. My husband chose auto flower by accident but I was so impressed I bought a few more varieties.